Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1956)

Record Details:

Title:
Motion Picture Daily
Date:
Oct-Dec 1956
Publisher:
New York [Motion picture daily, inc.]
Volume:
Motion picture daily
Leaf #:
000335
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
A New York-based daily trade paper published by Martin Quigley. The companion to Quigley's better known weekly publication, MOTION PICTURE HERALD, and a direct competitor to THE FILM DAILY, which was also published out of New York. Established in 1930, MOTION PICTURE DAILY enjoyed a circulation of roughly 5,000 readers most years of its four decades in print (a nearly identical circulation to THE FILM DAILY, but only one third of the readership of MOTION PICTURE HERALD, which reached a wider audience of exhibitors). In the 1930s, the MOTION PICTURE DAILY's editor, Maurice Kann, called on the movie industry to shift more production back to the East Coast. Any productions that filmed in New York received ample attention. New York City never regained its production lead over Hollywood, but the major studios used the Big Apple for their corporate and distribution headquarters. As a result, MOTION PICTURE DAILY tended to focus on economic and regulatory issues confronting the film industry. -- Eric Hoyt, 2014
Date Added:
December 02, 2023
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MOTION PICTURE DAILY i,0. NO. 103 NEW YORK, U.S.A, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1956 TEN CENTS tive Dec. 31 aary's Pact th Metro Terminated "hau Being Put in nistrative Charge Schary, vice-president and (don head at M-G-M studios, irminated his contract with I I n c, e at the of this I was and here ipy. A a i y , contract another jtto run, remain the proi c o mJto comroduction Designing which stars Lauren Bacall egory Peck. ciated with M-G-M since 1948, Schary previously was iKO Radio Pictures and VanFilms, Inc., and has been pro( Continued on page 2 ) Dore Scharv cians Sue AFM 'Royalty Fund' ram THE DAILY Bureau XYWOOD, Nov. 28-The inconflict in the Los Angeles >f the American Federation of ans, largely confined to the industry heretofore, flowed lto the motion picture industry with the filing in Superior of a suit in behalf of 2,400 ans asking $4,468,950 damages he AFM and an injunction reng some hundred film pro(Continued on page 7) elevis'ion = Today To Seek N. Y. Tax Repeal Representatives of the Independent Theatre Owners of America and Metropolitan Motion Picture Theatres Association will meet with Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City on Dec. 7 to seek a repeal of the five per cent admissions tax, according to an announcement issued by both exhibitor groups yesterday. ITOA and MMPTA have formed a committee which will present Mayor Wagner with evidence of "the urgent necessity for the repeal of the impost." Serving on the committee are Harry Brandt, ITOA president; Sol Strausberg, MMPTA president; Eugene Picker; Emanuel Frisch; Sol Schwartz; William Namenson; Julius Sanders; Robert W. Coyne; D. John Phillips, and Morton Sunshine. Speaking for the group, Brandt and (Continued on page 6) Says f . Germany Could Take 25 Films Yearly Negotiations for the sale of American films to East Germany were opened last week by Marc Spiegel of the Motion Picture Export Association, according to a report presented to the board of directors of the MPEA at their weekly meeting early this week. The MPEA overseas representative said he felt that (Continued on page 7) Predicts Easing of Print Shortage Standardization Now Achieved: McLachlan Sees All Coast Films Photographed for Ratios of 1.66-to-l, 1.75-to-l or 1.85=to-l By MARTIN QUIGLEY, JR. DALLAS, Nov. 28— The battle over standardization is finished and exhibitors need have no further worries on this score, Hugh McLachlan, chairman of Committee on Standardization, today told delegates to the convention of Allied States Association. Henceforth the standard for CinemaScope pictures, according to McLachlan, will be the aspect ratio for CinemaScope pictures with optical prints. He urged all exhibitors to install the small teeth on their projector sprockets to ease the print shortage, pointing out the exhibitor should be willing to pay the $75 to $100 necessary when producers have discarded, in the pursuit of standardization, equipment costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. McLachlan said that exhibitors (Continued on page 6) Says 98 Million Weekly Want To See Films Special to THE DAILY DALLAS, Nov. 28-There's nothing wrong with this business when 98,000,000 people in this country want to go to the movies in a week, Albert E. Sindlinger, president of Sindlinger & Co., told the Allied convention in one of the principal addresses of the afternoon business session today. "I am appalled at the pessimism in this business; 6,000 additional theatres should not close. There should be 6,000 more theatres in the proper ( Continued on page 6 ) Stellings Begins Meetings With Company Heads Here By LESTER DINOFF Efforts to reawaken producer-distributor interest in the formation of an industry arbitration and conciliation system were launched here yesterday by Ernest Stellings, president of Theatre Owners of America, who met with company executives to seek a "re Membership Drive of V.C. Starts on Dec. ? (Picture on page 3) International Variety Clubs will launch a three-month membership drive, beginning on Dec. 1, in honor of international chief barker John H. Rowley, it was announced yesterdav by Harold J. Klein, chief barker of Variety Club Tent No. 35, at a luncheon meeting held at Toots Shor's Restaurant here. Klein was reelected chief barker of Tent No. 35 to serve for 1957 officers elected for the are Richard Brandt, first assistant (Continued on page 3) Other coming year conciliation of the differences." Stellings, who arrived in New York from Charlotte yesterday afternoon, immediately entered into conferences with production-distribution executives. By the time he leaves here on Saturday, the TOA president said he will "attempt to see" Walter Branson, RKO Radio Pictures; Charles Reagan, Loew's, Inc.; A. Montague, Columbia; Spyros P. Skouras, 20th Century-Fox; Alfred Daft', Universal; and Barney Balaban, Paramount Pictures. A meeting with executives of Warner Bros. Pictures has been delayed as Benjamin Kalmenson, executive vice-president, is in Hollywood at present. Attempts will be made by TOA headquarters here to set up meetings with company heads and (Continued on page 7) Southeastern Paramount Sales Meeting Opens Special to THE DAILY ATLANTA, Nov. 28-A three-day meeting of Paramount Southeastern division salesmen was opened today by Hugh Owen, Paramount Film Distributing Corp. vice-president and general sales manager. Present at die conference were W. (Continued on page 6)